Gary urges sales tax to replace income tax in plea for fair reforms
Elbert H. Gary addressing the American Iron and Steel Institute at the Commodore in New York urged Congress to remove tariff effects from business, adopt a sales tax, and defer the soldier bonus bill until finances improve. He called for nonpartisan tariff studies, equal treatment across government, and relief from heavy taxation to spur enterprise while noting profits in iron and steel remain slim.
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Elbert H. Gary
American Iron and Steel Institute
Motel Commodore
Congress
America
Gary
United States
Betty and Jack in a Comical Alley Scene
Betty recalls Bob whistling to grab her attention as she feels insulted. Jack honks his car horn to summon her outside, prompting her brief diversion with a quick excuse to go.
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Betty
Bob
Ark
Jack
France denies Crane sentencing in Syria case
Paris asserts Charles R. Crane of Chicago was never indicted or tried nor sentenced by a French military court in Damascus. The French government calls reports false and says Secretary Hughes will seek confirmation and safeguard Crane if needed. Crane recounts a Damascus incident where the US consul and French authorities clashed over a flag incident and apologies.
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Hughes
State Department
Charles R. Crane
Chicago
Damaseepy
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Crane
United States
Damascus
Paris
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China
Syria
Belfast Reports Severe Barricades Amid Rising Belfast Violence
May 27 Belfast is described as an armed camp with sandbag barriers and barbed wire in main streets and suburbs. The city hosts soldiers as violence spikes with multiple deaths and injuries reported. Frontiers near Tyrone and Londonderry show republican activity while Orange residents flee Donegal. Lord Dunreath’s county home attacked but defended by Captain Mulholland. An Irish Republican Army detachment reportedly arrested Protestants in Ballinaclee.
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Ulster
Tyrone
Londonderry
Donegal
Lord Dunreath
County Down
Lord Diunleath
Mulholland
Irish Republican Army
Bal- Inallee
Longford
Crane denies indictment in French detention case
The Foreign Office says Mr. Crane was never indicted or tried and the tale of his sentence is false. Crane, staying at a hotel, replied that he has heard little beyond what reporters have brought him, while receiving many cable inquiries from American friends about prison life and the Syria uprising two months earlier.
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Foreign Office
Texas Mob Seeks Negro After Slaying and Assault Near Waco
Miss Margaret Hayes reports a colored man shot and killed Harold Bolton, then assaulted her on a road near Waco. He allegedly forced them into a secluded spot, attempted to kill Hayes with a revolver that misfired three times, and fled toward Fort Worth after boarding a freight train.
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Tex
Margaret Hayes
Harold Bolton
Fort Worth
Miss Hayes
Bolton Saleo
Mexico Finance Secretary to Visit El Paso on Debt Talks
Adolfo de la Huerta Mexico's secretary of finance will arrive in El Paso en route to New York for talks with international bankers about Mexico's foreign debts. His car will be attached to the eastbound El Paso and Southwestern train bound for Kansas City and Chicago.
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Adolfo de la Huerta
Mexico
New York City
Southwestern
Kansas City
Chicago
U S Favors Reduction in Railroad Fares
Washington May 27 strong minority of the interstate commerce commission urges lower passenger fares to boost rail earnings as travel remains weak under high rates. Officials expect reduced mileage books and a broad rate overhaul. cabinet members worry horizontal cuts may not solve the earnings slump. Chicago May 27 railroad labor board acts on wages after freight rate cuts.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Board to rule on wages amid pending interstate cuts
Ben W. Hooper, chair of the board, said a decision on wage levels for a rail service class would be issued soon and independently of the interstate commerce commission’s announced cuts. He noted the board had prepared a wage decision before the commission’s move and would publish all decisions publicly.
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Chatenan Hooper
Interstate Commerce Commission
Explosion at Blumau muni ion plant toll rises in blast
A revised tally from Vienna reports about 20 dead after Thursday’s blast at Blumau’s government munition plant. Dozens injured including men and children as dynamite magazines detonated destroying houses and wrecking a nearby mill. Initial death count had been eleven.
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Niles
Congress Petitions Push Local Option Beer Bill
Fifty representatives urge the Ways and Means Committee to report H R 1 for local option beer and cider with 2.75 percent alcohol. The measure would create federal local option districts in each district and set a 20 cent per gallon tax. Hill estimates annual revenue between 400 and 500 million dollars.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
John Phillip Hill
Maryland
House of Representatives
H. RK. Idle
Congress
TV. RB. Tidto
Hill
United States
Memorial Service for H P Davison Held in Washington
A memorial service for Henry P Davison will be held at Red Cross headquarters in Washington next Sunday. Judge John Barton Payne will preside. Dr Stock ton Axson national secretary during the war will deliver an address. ambassadors of allied powers expected to attend.
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Henry P. Davison
War Council
American Red Cross
League of Red Cross Societies
Ed Crosse
John Barton Payne
Red Crosse
Stockton Axson
Jury verdict on Omar T. Raton case in missing path
Report from May 27 states three women jurors of the Omar T. Raton trial wept in the jury room after the foreman announced the inability to reach a unanimous verdict. The tally was seven for conviction and five for acquittal with seven jurors worn.
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Nine Die In Sinnemahoning Powder Plant Blast
A Sinnemahoning Powder Company plant in Sinnemahoning Pennsylvania exploded injuring and killing nine men. A telegraph report from Emporium says three powder mills were blown and workers were blown to pieces as the blast occurred shortly before noon.
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Simnemahoning
Sinnemahoning Powder Company
Bishop Nicholson Predicts Global Prohibition Crusade
Milwaukee May 27 Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chicago urged the Anti-Saloon League to spread prohibition worldwide. He forecast an invasion of foreign countries by workers of the movement, urging a broad campaign against alcohol.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
United States
Anti-Seloon League
Bernie
Princess of Pless faces confinement in Germany
Princess Marie Theresa Ottvia of Views, nicknamed Ligisy, reportedly a much admired princess, is described as a prisoner in Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. She is separated from her husband Prince of Pless who resides at Kuerstenberg, with an implied threat to leave if she forfeits an annual income of 100,000 marks.
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Germany
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Partenkirchen
Laverlin Alps
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Pless
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Kuerstenberg
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