Insurgent Georgia Senate Plans Extra Session to Oppose Tax Reform
Senator J C Collier leads a bloc to force a November extra session of the Georgia General Assembly to oppose Governor Walker's tax reform and seek a general sales tax. He says 20 to 25 senators support the move and a formal bloc announcement is expected this week. A coordinating meeting will be held later to organize efforts.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Senate
Twenty-Second District
Senate Finance Committee
General Assembly
Walker
Collier
Russell Scott Placed On Death Row Reprieve Fizzles
AP report from Chicago notes July 20 that James Ball Detroit telegrapher confessed he fabricated a tale claiming Russell Scott aided in the murder of Joseph Maurer. The supposed last hour intervention to save Scott from the gallows proved false.
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Chicago
Joseph Maurer
Associated Press
Russell Scott
James Ball
Detroit
Russell
Ball
Youthful Slayer Escapes Florida Prison
Walter C. Valentine a Bryan Ohio youth who killed a Miami police officer and was serving a life term has escaped from Florida State Prison authorities reported from Tallahassee on July 20.
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Associated Preas
Tallahassee
Fla
Walter C. Valentine
Bryan
Ohio
Miami
Thomasville Post Office Records 25 Percent Receipts Rise
Postal receipts for Jan 1 to June 30 1925 reached 32 144 13 dollars up from 26 675 33 dollars for the same period in 1924. The 6 463 80 dollar gain marks a twenty five percent increase and reflects Thomasville's growth.
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Thomasville
Phillips Succeeds Ander gor on Highway Board
Governor Walker nominates John R. Phillips of Jefferson county to the state highway commission for a term through January 1 1926, succeeding W T Anderson who resigned. The Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment in executive session.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Walker
John R. Phillips
Jefferson County
State Highway Commission
W. T. Anderson
Senate
Phillips
Reward Offered for Spirit Messages from Deceased Wife
J Albert Gilbert of Portland Oregon offers five hundred dollars to anyone who can prove messages from his dead wife. He received 139 messages since 1917 but calls them all fake. A password agreed before her death would identify genuine messages, sealed in a safe deposit vault.
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Oregon
Wrfe
Georgia Weather: fair to night and Tuesday
Fair tonight and Tuesday with southern Georgia dry and northern counties seeing showers. Temperatures rise slightly in the extreme north tonight. Moderate conditions prevail across the state with a warmer trend in the far north.
German security note hints new meeting of powers
London July 20 Germany's security note to Britain and France suggests a conference of powers to seek a permanent disarmament solution and frontier security for Western Europe. It would not push for a clearer definition of Versailles limits or easier Rhineland occupation conditions.
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Associated Press
London
Germany
Europe
Rhineland
German Reply to Briand Quietly Doubted by Reichstag
Berlin July 20 Summer politics linger as Germany prepares its reply to M Briand on a proposed security pact. Pacifist circles argue Germany’s February 9 memorandum set a clear peace move with equality terms and no legal quibbles, while French counter replies raise questions and delay publication to Wednesday.
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Berlin
Germany
Aristide Briand
Reichstag
Luther
M. Briand
Tedey
Europe
Bond holders in va carolina chemical to receive payment
Bond holders of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company were notified by Central Union Trust Company of New York that a cash distribution of four hundred dollars per thousand dollar bond will be made by July 21. Distributions will be paid from proceeds of the sale of stock of the Southern Cotton Oil Company pledged as security for the bonds.
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Associated Press
New York
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
Central Union Trust Company of
Southern Cotton Oil Company
Virginia-Carolina Company
Chicago grain operator falls to death from fifteenth story
E. W. Wagner a former leading figure in the Chicago grain trade plunged to death today from the Westminster building’s fifteenth story in the central business district. Wagner’s firm had failed for millions years earlier.
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Chicago
Associated Pres
Ill
E. W. Wagner
Westminster
Central Business District
Three Killed In Lisbon In New Revolutionary Outbreak
Lisbon Portugal July 20 Three persons were killed and fifteen wounded in yesterday s revolution here. Lisbon is under martial law and the situation is calm.
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Lisbon
Man can be a Christian and an evolutionist at same time
Rev Walter C Whitaker of St Johns Knoxville testified in the Scopes trial record at Dayton Tennessee that a person can be both a devout Christian and an evolutionist. He said he has preached Jesus Christ as the son of God for thirty years and sees no contradiction between evolution and Christianity.
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Associated Press
Dayton, Tenn
Walter C Whitaker
St Johns' Episcopal Church
Knoxville
Scopes
Jesus Christ
God
French to Launch Morocan Offensive Against Abdel Krim
Paris reports France will begin a major military drive in Morocco against Abdel Krim. Premier Painleve says peace terms offered by Franco Spanish agents are known to the Rif leader and negotiations may open if he accepts. France will be strengthened and remain calm from now on.
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Paris
France
Morrocco
Abdel Krim
Painlieve
Spain
Morocco
Riffian Attacks Press French Lines as Petain Arrives
In Foz Morocco July 20 reports say increasingly hard Riffian assaults meet tired French troops who welcome Marshal Petain. Air power grows with daily bombings from Fez to the front. Abd El Krim's forces strike pockets along Ain Aiha to Abn Maatout, with French outposts at Bab Hopeine and Qued Hamrine relieved by flying columns. Reinforcements move out as Abd El Krim's campaign begins.
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Fez
Tereual
Bab Hopeine
Qued Hamrine
Ain Alcha
Abd-El-Krim
Petain
Daytach Courthouse Considered Unsafe
A court in Deyton Tenn. plans to move proceedings to an outside platform after Judge Raulston warned the courthouse is unsafe with plaster cracking from the ceiling. A crowded courtroom blocked business as the community faces relocation of the session.
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Associated Press
Deyion
Tenn
Court Room
Raulston
Court House
Rail consolidation plans Van Sweringens again aired
Interstate Commerce Commission resumed review of the Nickel Plate railroad consolidation as O. P Van Sweringen testified. H. W Anderson for minority stockholders pressed cross examination tracing Van Sweringen interests back to 1915, while Newton D. Baker defended the couple amid past Cleveland suburban ventures.
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O. P
M J. van Sweringen
Interstate Commerce Commission
O. P van Sweringen
H. W Anderson
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
van Sweringen
Cleveland
Newton D. Baker
State highways would be reorganized into 13 trunk lines
In Atlanta on July 20 the Chatham county delegation proposed three bills to reorganize the state highway system into thirteen trunk line zones. Each zone could issue bonds by voter approval, with total bond authorizations exceeding twenty seven million dollars. The measures require constitutional amendments.
New Confederate Memorial Planned by Gutzon Borglum
Gutzon Borglum, deposed sculptor of the Stone Mountain Confederate memorial, announced in Charlotte that his original concept will be realized in North Carolina. He said the location is undecided but pledged ample financial backing to complete the project.
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Stone Mountain Memorial
N. C
Prers
Charlotte
Gutzon Borglum
Stone Mountain
Atlanta
Rock Mountain
North Carolina
Desperate French Defense Ends Limitations
A fragment notes French forces will abandon a strict defensive posture as the military machine shifts from a constrained, desperate defense to broader action. The statement signals strategic change amid ongoing conflict and pressure.
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Itary
Darrow Bonds $8000 for Tuesday Court Appearance
Dayton Tenn July 20 Judge John T Raulston cites Clarence Darrow defense attorney in the Scopes trial for contempt of court and orders Darrow to post $5000 bond to appear Tuesday morning. The contempt stems from remarks Friday when expert testimony was barred from the jury.
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Darrow
Raulston
Associated Press
Dayton, Tenn
John T. Raulston
Clarence Darrow
Chicago
Balance of Boxer indemnity remitted by America
The balance of 6,137,500 dollars due the United States from the Chinese government on the Boxer indemnity payments has been remitted by President Coolidge under congressional authority granted in May 1924.
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China
America
United States
Coolidge
United
Mobile Bay party of twelve found safe after search
Elliott G. Rickardy a prominent Mobile attorney and a party of twelve were missing in an open boat after leaving Montrose on Mobile Bay. They were due back at noon yesterday and were reported safe at 7 30 this morning after a mobile bay search.
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Associated Press
Mobile
Ala
Elliott G. Rickardy
Mobile Bay
Montrose
Eleven States Back Harvest Campaign to Sell Half Dollars
Governors or their representatives from eleven Southern states pledged support for a Harvest Campaign this fall to sell government minted half dollars aiding Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial construction. States include Virginia South Carolina Mississippi Texas Louisiana Oklahoma Tennessee Alabama Kentucky Florida and Georgia. A reported delay in communication left some parties unconfirmed.
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Stone Mountain
Virginia
South Carolina
Mississippi
Texas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Alabama
Kentucky
Florida
Georgia
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