General Tax Bill Increases State Revenues
The House ways and means committee reported a 1926 27 general tax measure as a committee substitute. It aims to raise about a million dollars annually more than the prior act. The main change imposes a privilege tax for recording papers securing debt payment or real estate conveyance, at ten cents per hundred dollars of consideration.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
House
Ways and Means
Harris States
Hog production in South declines
Washington reports the Agriculture Department says hog production in the South has fallen too low for regional interests. It stops short of urging hog farming as a primary enterprise but supports hog raising as a beneficial farming sideline in the region.
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South
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Department
Waterway projects at Augusta May soon be abandoned
Savannah Ga August 7 government considers abandoning waterway projects at Augusta and above Augusta in the Savannah river Sapelo harbor and on the St. Mary's river Major William F Tompkins district engineer asked interested parties to submit arguments within thirty days
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Augusta
Associated Press
Savannah, Ga
William F. Tompkins
United States
Savannah River
Sapelo Harbor
St. Mary’s River
Pronounced Earth Shocks Recorded
Washington reports pronounced earthquake shocks felt in the capital area. Officials recorded tremors across several neighborhoods with minor structural concerns noted but no major damage reported.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Parkersburg Youth Kills Father Then Wounds Mother
In Parkersburg Iowa Rev R H Vandervoort a Methodist pastor was shot dead by his son this morning and Mrs Vandervoort was fatally wounded. The youth a top student had just graduated from Parkersburg high school and said he would give a confession.
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Associated Press
Parkersburg
Iowa
R. H Vandervoort
Vandervoort
Defunct Parneb ie Trust Co Becomes Bankrupt
Pittsburg August 7 John A Bell president of the closed Carnegie Trust Co filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in U S District Court. Bell listed assets of 1,628,535.73 and liabilities of 8,669,090.81.
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Parnebie Trust CO
John A. Bell
Bell
Carnegie
Henry Ford Becomes Independent All Metal Airplane Manufacturer
Henry Ford, famed automobile magnate, has become the independent producer of all metal airplanes. He announced purchase of the Stout Metal Airplane Company of Detroit to accelerate aircraft development.
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Henry Ford
ALL Metal
The
Stout Metal Airplane Company
Sea Serpent Reported Off Victoria Delights Children
John Van Valkenburg saw an animal drifting with the tide off the coast near Queen Charlotte Islands. Commissioner John Babcock said the report bears sincerity though no such creature is known to science.
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Associated Press
Victoria
B. C
John ¥. Babcock
British Columbia
Queen Charlotte Islands
Pacific Ocean
John van Valkenburg
Babcock
Seismograph Registration at Georgetown Records Early Morning spike
A seismograph reading at Georgetown University logged activity beginning at 2 54 a m and ending at 4 00 a m The peak intensity occurred at 3 09 a m The event was reported as twenty four hundred miles from Washington with the direction undetermined and noted by Director Tondorf
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Georgetown University
Tondorf
Washington
Restraining Order Filed In Evolution Case II Tennessee
A petition for a temporary restraining order was filed in federal court by James Robert Wilson of Rhea Springs Tennessee seeking to block enforcement of the Tennessee all evolution law by state officials and others.
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Tennessee
Associated Press
Knoxville
Tenn
State of
United States District Court
James Robert Wilson
Rhea Springs
Tennessee anti evolution suit to target high teachers and UT
Knoxville report outlines a planned federal suit by John R. Neal in Chattanooga and Knoxville to challenge the Tennessee anti evolution law. Neal vows prosecutions against teachers and university officials, arguing state fundamentalists push intolerance and threaten educational freedom.
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Chattanooga
Scopes
Tennessee
Neal
Wey
Austin Peay
Peay
Gov. Peay
University of Tennessee
State
Uniform Textbook Commission
Chelsea Mayor Partner in Rum Trust Uncovered
Federal grand jury indictments name Chelsea Mayor Lawrence F. Daigley and 43 others including 10 police officers in an alleged rum trust. The operation, spanning manufacturers, transporters, wholesalers, and retailers, ran as a modern business machine under police protection. Investigation by 12 DOJ agents led by District Attorney Harold P. Williams surfaced the scheme in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts
Associated Press
Boston
Mass
Lawrence F. Daigley
Chelsea
Department of Justice
Harold P. Williams
Sargent Hoover to Confer With Coolidge at White Court
Swampscott Mass Aug 7 Attorney General Sargent arrived to confer with President Coolidge. Secretary Hoover to stay briefly tomorrow at White Court. The talks will cover the hard coal wage controversy and policy to be pursued.
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Associated Press
Swampscott
Mass
Sargent
Coolidge
Hoover
White Court
Hughes County Bill Fails Before Senate
In Atlanta on August 7 the Senate failed to reach the two thirds majority required to create Hughes county. The vote was 27 to 15 in favor, triggering a reconsideration motion by Senator Hughes that could be taken up Monday.
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Hughes County
Senate
Associated Press
Atlanta
Hughes
Mother of Four Children Killed in Shootout at Terminal
New York August 7 A mother of four used as a human shield by a fleeing gunman died after a hail of bullets near the Pennsylvania railroad terminal. A detective was mortally wounded. Two gangsters were captured while two escaped as police, aided by a cheering crowd, kept the mob from lynching them.
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Associated Press
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal
Five Robbers Take Fur Pelt Loot From New York Store
Five robbers stormed the Harry Bleiweis Company in New York, herding six workers into a basement, then rifling sixteen pelt safes and fleeing with furs valued at about one hundred thousand dollars. The heist targeted a furrier factory and shop, with the thieves escaping before authorities arrived.
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Assocated
New York
Harry Bleiweis Company
Ku Klux Klan Plans 60 000 March Parade Toward White House
Washington plans reveal a parade of about 60 000 robed Klan members marching along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House tomorrow afternoon, according to Klan headquarters in Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Ku Klux Klan
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
White House
Protestant Knights Leader Detained Over Anti Klan Handbills
Thomas L. Avaunt, head of the Protestant Knights of America, was taken into custody in Washington DC amid the distribution of handbills urging residents to oppose a Ku Klux Klan parade. No charges were filed, and he was released.
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Washington, D. C
Thomas L. Avaunt
Protestant Knights of America
Ku Klux Klan
Locomotive Drives Through Flaming Blaze to Escape Forest Fire
A crew on a locomotive blasted through a solid wall of flame and over four burning bridges to escape as the Lyman Lumber Company plant near Bellingham Washington burned last night. The blaze forced them to race toward safety after the sawmill complex was engulfed in the forest fire.
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Lyman Lumber Company
Here
Hendersonville Gun Battle Ends in Mayor Bryson's Death
In Hendersonville North Carolina Bonnie L Brooks and his twelve year old son Murray fought former mayor Sam Y Bryson in the streets Yesterday afternoon Bryson was killed by four bullets Brooks was arrested by Patrolman Clarence Edney and held in Henderson County jail The incident stems from a December dispute over Brysons alleged to have connections with Mrs Brooks The boy aided in firing and asked his father whom to shoot Bryson had been a local businessman and postmaster and had resigned as mayor after prior trouble with Brooks
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Brooks
Hendersonville
N. C
Bonnie L. Brooks
Murray
Sam Y. Bryson
Clarence Edney
Henderson County
Bryson
Knoxville
Five Die When Auto Jumps Bridge in Lowell Incident
An auto veered through a fence on a bridge over the Boston and Maine tracks in Lowell Massachusetts and fell forty feet to the road below. Three were killed instantly, three others critically injured, and three seriously hurt. Two more critically wounded later died, totaling five fatalities.
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Lowell
Mass
Associated Press
Boston and Maine
Foster mother seeks release in Browning adoption case
Mrs. Anna St. John of Rye New York foster mother of Dorothy Sunshine Browning adopted six years ago by Edward W Browning wealthy real estate operator today took steps booking to cancellation of her status It was the announced object of providing a companion for Dorothy who is now nine years old that Browning recently adopted Mary Louis Spns a daughter of immigrant parents and this adoption has since been made the subject of an inquiry by the Bureau of Public Welfare.
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By -the- Associated Press
New York
Anna St. John
Rye
N. Y
Dorothy Sunshine Browning
Edward W. Browning
Dorothy
Browning
Mary Louis Spns
Bureau of Public Welfare
Former Hendersonville Mayor Shot in Revolver Duel
Hendersonville N C August 7 A preliminary hearing was waived this morning in the case of Bannie L Brooks a barbershop proprietor who yesterday shot and killed Sam Y Bryson former mayor of Hendersonville in a sensational revolver duel His twelve year old son Murray Brooks is also held in connection with the shooting.
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Associated Press
Hendersonville
N. C
Bannie L. Brooks
Sam Y. Bryson
Murray Brooks
Italian hydroplane strike on swimmers kills two
In Rome on August 7 an Italian hydroplane piloted by Alfredo Manciarocchi struck bathers near Porta Rosa. Two girls were killed and several others injured, according to the Commissariat of Aeronautics.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Alfredo Manciarocchi
Porta Rosa
Commissariat of Aeronautics
British Commission to Investigate Coal Industry Planned
London reports the government aims to form a commission to investigate the coal industry after securing a fifty million dollar appropriation to prevent a nationwide strike. Selecting members will be difficult if all parties must be satisfied.
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Associated Press
London
Nevada Slayer Found Guilty of First Degree Murder
Reno Nevada August 7 John H Randolph condemned to death for killing his 78 year old mother by beating her to death and faces execution by lethal gas asphyxiation under Nevada law.
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Reno
Associated Press
Nev
John H. Randolph
Randolph
Millikan Attacks Scientific and Religious Dogmatism
In Los Angeles on August 7, Dr. R A Millikan, famed physicist and Nobel laureate, condemned both scientific and religious dogmatism. He urged scholars to adopt modesty and thoughtfulness after twenty five years of rapid physical science advances.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Cal
R. A. Millikan
American Chemical Society
Millikan
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