Tax Reduction of 250 Million Urged by Mellon
Secretary Mellon proposed a tax cut ranging from 250 to 300 million with surtax reductions to 20 percent for high earners and a 25 percent cap on the top rate. He also urged repealing the estate and gift taxes and other levies while opposing the amusements tax. The House Ways and Means Committee began hearings to draft a next year tax bill likely to save 300 to 500 million.
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Mellon
Treasury—House
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Andrew W. Mellon
Treasury
House
and Means
Ways and Means
National Industrial Conference Board of New York
Melton
Ways and Means Committee
Bacharach
New Jersey
Two Killed Two Injured In Clinchfield Wreck
Two men died and two were injured after a Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad collision near Clinchfield Georgia. A rear-end crash on a curve led to a wreck that left two locomotives and fifteen cars piled in a tangled mass. Engineer Joseph F Crowell died when his engine turned over on him and brakeman Charles D Fowler was killed instantly.
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Presa
Clinchfield Ga
Georgia Southern and
Florida
Joseph F. Crowell
Charles D. Fowler
Fatal rear end collision on Georgia Southern line
Two men died and two were injured in a rear end freight crash near Clinchfield Georgia on the Georgia Southern and Florida division of the Southern Railway. Engineer Joseph E. Crowell and brakeman Charles D. Fowler were killed. Fireman Will Rudolph and another fireman Hobson Brooks were seriously or severely injured. Wreckage blocked the main line for hours, detours used other railroads, and damaged wires hindered clearance. Two locomotives and fifteen cars were involved. The incident disrupted Florida-bound traffic and authorities predicted a long clearance time.
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Macon
Georgia Southern and
Florida
Southern Railway
Clinchfield
Joseph E. Crowell
Charles D. Fowler
Will Rudolph
Hobson Brooks
A. 8
Jones
West Palm Beach
Fla
Southern
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
Governor Walker to Attend Washington Meet
Governor Clifford Walker will travel to Washington for a Friday hearing of the ways and means committee to oppose the federal inheritance tax. More than thirty governors will attend, including Governor Walker.
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Walker
Washington
Associated Pri
Atlanta
Eerovador
Clifford Walker
Ways and Means
Mother of Boy Slayer Hopes To Save Him
Mrs. Della Vandervoort, widow, faces district court in Allison Indiana as her 17 year old son Warren pleads guilty to first degree murder in the killing of Rev R J Vandervoort and wounding of his mother at Parkersburg. The hearing seeks to determine guilt degree and no death sentence is being sought. The mother argues he was not legally responsible and may have been sleepwalking.
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Boy
Della Vandervoort
Iowa
Warren
The
Associated Press
Allison
Dee
District Court
R. J. Vandervoort
Parkersburg
Superior Court Opens under Judge Knight in county session
Judge John P. Knight of Berrien county opened the court at ten o'clock amid an assembled staff including Sheriff Davis and Clerk Singletary. The grand jury was sworn with T. C. Beverly as foreman and bailiffs named. Knight delivered a thorough charge on jury service, emphasizing duty, accuracy, and the public safety issues of reckless driving, drunken driving, pistol carry, and narcotics control. The panel will review county finances, taxes, inventories, church and school protections, jail conditions, pension rolls, and deed records.
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John P. Knight
Berrien
Thomas
J. C. Beverly Foreman
Grand Jury
Berrien County
Davis
Singletary
Hay
William Vonjer
J. T. Stewart
J. W. Wilson
C. T. Willis
T. C. Beverly
Judge Knight
Dempsey’s Metropolitan Museum Portrait Highlights Firpo Knockout
A painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicts the 1923 brutal bout when Luis Angel Firpo floored Jack Dempsey. The scene captures the infamous moment from the Sept 14 1923 title fight, remembered as Dempsey’s least proud episode.
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Associated Presa
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jack Dempsey
Luis Angel Firpo
Intellectual criminals read Shakespeare and study mathematics
The Associated Press reports that twelve of the thirteen members of the Tessler cowboy gang have been captured. The gang used silencers on pistols and relied on luck from rabbit’s feet, highlighting a stereotype of educated criminals. The incident underscores a coordinated effort against the gang.
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Tessler
The
Associated Press
New York
Five Robbers In Brooklyn Stage Bold Holdups
A band of five robbers, one in a policeman's uniform, held up several Brooklyn sites today. In Manhattan gunmen wounded a restaurant owner, with eighteen patrons present. The boldest Brooklyn raid targeted Mr and Mrs Samuel Goldman and their chauffeur as their car rode the Eastern Parkway, yielding jewelry and cash totaling $5,250.
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Band OF Five
Brooklyn
Associated Press
New York
Manhattan
Lower East Side
Samuel Goldman
Eastern Parkway
John B. Wilson Becomes Governor Walker Private Secretary
John B. Wilson of Monroe assumed duties as private secretary to Gov. Clifford M. Walker in Atlanta on October 19. He succeeds Matthew C. Bennett, who resigned to become chief examiner of the Georgia Securities Commission. Wilson, a noted Monroe attorney, has prior experience with the state revenue department.
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Atlanta
John B. Wilson
Monroe
Clifford M. Walker
Matthew. C. Bennett
Georgia Securities Commission
Wilson
Monroa
State Revenue Department
Cost of Raising a Baby Reads Eight Dollars Monthly
Berlin reports a statistician's calculation that each new child costs a family eight dollars per month during the first two years after birth. The estimate comes after deducting medical and nurse expenses billed by the doctor and the stork.
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Berlin
Earthquake Recorded Near New York
An earthquake centered about 550 miles from New York was detected by the Fordham University seismograph starting at 6 01 this morning and reaching the minimum at 6 03.
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New York
Fordham University
State official urges humane care in child institutions
The speaker stresses reviewing the tax collector's records to ensure all orphanages and children's establishments operate humanely. He calls for laws that require orderly, safe business conduct and proper regulations to enforce humane treatment.
Books Case May Reach Jury by Wednesday
Hendersonville North Carolina October 19 Arguments resumed by the defense in the Bonnie Brooks slaying of former Mayor Samuel Bryson. The case is not expected to reach the jury before Wednesday with defense attorney J E Shipman to argue to save Brooks from the death sentence followed by the prosecution attorney R R Reynolds.
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Bryson
Associated Press
Hendersonville
N. C
Bonnie Brooks
Samual Bryson
J. E. Shipman
Brooks
R. R. Reynolds
Chicago Could Afford To Buy Off Its Crooks
Chicago crime costs the city so much each year that it could pay its estimated 30 000 crooks 20 000 annually or 600 000 000 to leave town, said C R Holden president of the Chicago crime commission.
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Associated Press
Chicago
C. R. Holden
Chicago Crime Commission
Bryan Memorial College Movement Launched in Dayton
The first unit of a campaign to raise 5 million dollars to build Bryan University in Dayton is launched Friday night October 13. Citizens of Rhea County will gather in the local auditorium for the event honoring the late William Jennings Bryan.
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Peseqd
Dayton, Tenn
Bryan University
Dayton
William Jenning Bryan
Rhea County
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis Observed
Yorktown Va October 19 celebration marks the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to General George Washington. The event is described as the greatest demonstration in the town since the British handed his sword to American revolutionary forces.
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Associated Press
Yorktown
Lord Cornwallis
George Washington
Washington Chosen for 1928 Episcopal Convention
The 1926 budget for the Protestant Episcopal Church was set at 4,212,370 dollars. Washington, D. C., was unanimously chosen by the House of Deputies to be the 1928 convention meeting place, pending approval by the House of Bishops.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Protestant Episcopal Church
General Convention
House of Deputies
Washington, D. C
House of Bishops
Supreme Court Upholds Volstead Act in Duggan Case
The Supreme Court again sustains the Volstead Act and its provisions. A formal Chicago Duggan case opinion, where the defendant's appeal was dismissed, is used to define the court's support of the dry law.
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United States Supreme Court
Duggan
Chicago
Coolidge Greets Hospital Delegates at Convention
President Coolidge today conveyed greetings to the American Hospital Association at Louisville Georgia where the ninth annual convention opened. He praised the association's work in his message.
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Coolidge
American Hospital Association
Weather Outlook for Georgia Tonight and Tuesday
Fair tonight and Tuesday. Colder tonight and in south and east central portions Tuesday. Light to heavy frost in the north and probable light frost in the interior south portion tonight. Fresh northwest and north winds.
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